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TIL that the German pharmaceutical company Bayer knowingly sold blood-clotting agents infected with HIV to Asia and Latin America months after withdrawing them from Europe and the US

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rRmQ4 TIL During the Vietnam War the act of "Fragging" was when US troops would toss a grenade in their commanding officers tent; known and suspected fragging cases by explosives in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 totaled nearly 900...
8wKV TIL Arizona and Hawaii are the only two US states that don’t observe Daylight Savings Time
Ord4 TIL that in Japan students don’t take exams until 4th grade.
6Ee98 TIL More than 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year.
p8dlZ TIL The great grandson of China's first President didn't learn about him until he was 17 when he had to do a term paper and found over 1,600 books on Sun Yat-Sen, "The Father of Modern China". His grandparents and parents never told him about politics so he could grow up as a normal child